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FAMILY LIT. CKK. \MIiVriD.E. 



T^'tr^a 



;uid bur-marigold ( Can optix and l>ifl< n.^}. Taken by sweeping 

 these plants. 



Tribe VIII. SAt'EIMUM. 



Large or medium-sized, cylindrical spc-:-ies having the front flat, 

 quadrate and vortical; eyes finely granulated, deeply emarginate; 



palpi rather stout, last joint more or less 

 oval, truncate 1 at tip ; antenna 1 as long as 

 body or a little shorter, scape nearly cyl- 

 indrical, without cicatrix; thorax cylindri- 

 cal, without spines or tubercles; elytra 

 wider than thorax, rounded (rarely spinose 

 or acuminate) at tip; legs moderate, thighs 

 not club shaped; hind tarsi with first joint 

 much elongated; tarsal claws divaricate. All 

 ni our species belong to the single uenus: 



LXVIII. SAPEKDA Fab. 1775. (Gr., "a 

 kind offish.") 



M^F>F ^x r ' ^'^ s f i mis ' as characterized above, 



'iV #* ^'~' ^ 01 '^' 1 American species have been 



Fig .468. SavrdaoNiqw Say. (After ascribed by MeSSrS. Felt and Joutel,* of 



Smith in Fifth Rep. u.s.Ent.Comm.) w hich eiyht have been taken in Indiana, 



while six others may occur. Among them 



are beetles of much economic importance, several being very in- 

 jurious to apple trees, while others prey upon the elm, hickory, lin- 

 den and poplar. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF SAPERDA. 



a. .Vntennse plainly annulate. 



li. Head deeply impressed between the eyes. 



<: Elytra obliquely narrowed, ending in a spine at tip; color yellow- 

 ish-brown with four oblique darker bands. (Fig. 4-GS.) 



OBIJQUA. 



IT. Klytra slightly narrowed at tip and without a spine; thorax with 

 three orange yellow lines. 2002. MUTICA. 



l>h. Head rounded in front. 



('. Thorax with a dense line of gray pubescence each side; black, 

 coarsely punctured, thinly clothed with tine ash-gray pubescence. 



M<ESTA. 



ilil. Thorax with pubescence uniform, black, more tinely punctured, 

 densely clothed throughout with gray pubescence. 



2<MK'>. CO.NCOI OK. 

 '/(/. Antenna 1 uuicolored. not annulate. 



*Thcir monograph is ;i mo.li-l of its kind, giving full description, life history anti colored figure of each 

 species and its markings. 



